I remember back when we had chat bots like the Bonzi Buddy in 1999.
Now in 2024, we have the technology to run a full rendered chat bot, using local or online chat apis, but it still doesnt exist.
Tavern AI and other chat apps/services exist, but they are only static images.

Why no realistic person avatar for the desktop yet?

So this would have been perfectly fine if they paid for licenses to film the music video.

Its sad, dac/amps make headphones sound so much better. The LG phones had them, but LG is discontinued. Think the Sony and Asus gamer phones have them. Samsung tablets don't have headphone jacks anymore. But entry level samsung and motorola do. So the high end and low end users use wired headphones, but the middle class will gladly buy bluetooth?

Its strange, I can understand replacing sdcards since they could include a TB internally, but most are still cheaping out on internal storage.

But dac/amps are still light years better than bluetooth. I use one in my car to hook up my phone, its louder and better than bluetooth.

For a world with needs/options, removing a simple headphone jack seems very insulting to users.

Prob not a bad idea to keep AM around, since many rural communities still have AM.
Even better include HD Radio for AM, for better quality.

https://hdradio.com/all-digita...

As for cost, that doesnt really make sense, as they build everything in bulk for their car lines.
Its bad enough many cars dont include AUX jacks anymore.

Removing simple things that people use, to save a few pennies is kinda absurd.

I use IRC!

Why can't the FBI target these malicious bot networks? They seem to be only focusing on software sharing sites and torrent networks.

Seems crazy that Google has to do this in the lack of the FBI's action.

Since AI will be used as a tools in art, tools are allowed and copyright is retained. But whats the agreed amount to retain copyright under USCO?

AI generation will be filling in gaps, offering suggestions, fine tuning, filling in effects, etc. Media will handily adopt it to speed up processes.

Maybe it's the amount of prompts given vs the ai generation. If you describe the scene, the characters, the look and feel, and the dialog, but AI generates the images? Thats just giving a book a visual to your story.

I have favorite sci-fi authors, in the future I could see AI generating movies based off the books, maybe starting as Anime until the technology can generate a full movie, or at least a graphic novel to start. That should probably retain copyright.

I'm also expecting AI to be implemented in music, offer suggestions, make modifications, until it can fully generate music. The cross over from tool usage to humanless music generation is where copyright most likely should end.

Twitter went beyond banning the url from posts and comments, they used its child porn filters to exclude the new yorks times news article in private direct messages.

Like oxycontin?

Microsoft stopped doing win10 upgrades, and I wanted the new kernel that had AMD nested cpu virtualizations instructions, you can run a VM in a VM.

So I see win11 has the latest kernel 19200+ versions, so I upgrade and nope, amd nested wasn't included.

Figured most things work (except vr), might as well keep using win11. But the way they crippled the taskbar was a nightmare, and open-shell won't work on win11.

They also took 2 step tasks and made them 3 steps tasks to make it look pretty, cut paste drop downs, drag and drop issues.

The day to day workflow was horrible, and yes, it was stable.

Big companies like to use ticket rate closure to rate staff, but doesnt difference tiers for tickets. And, the low performers will cherry pick the easy tickets that can be quickly closed. Or more often people wont solve the harder tickets, to keep up their ticket stats in the monthly stats.

Doctors offices have this problem now too, they have a ETA for each patient, ran by the insurance or corporate heads, and a few late people or big problems can throw off the entire day.

I've seen this problem on installers and contractors, HQ gives an alloted time to complete a job, but they have no idea what the onsite setup is like, lots of issues can pop up.

I had this one Boss fire an IT guy, for not completing a remote datacenter job quick enough, the IT guy drove to our datacenter in a new office, and the site was brand new installation, there was cardboard boxes, wire and metal bits all over the the server room, so he cleaned it up. Got fired for not being quick enough.

This will just make people do "just enough", race towards the bottom of quality.

Wouldn't download a car would you?

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.